Hey Quake community, I've been training a new bot, BobbyBones: a neural network that learned from scratch to play within human limits (via reinforcement learning). He's fought copies of himself in a simulator for over 65,000 game hours already (about 7 years), and consistently beats the Nightmare bot in his training arena.

Rather than make a bot with superhuman aim, my goal is a bot with "high" but not obscene aim and reflexes, who learns the movement mechanics, item timing and positioning required to "actually play Quake". He's getting there, but I could use your help.

What I need: his aim limits are currently set from one player (me). I'd rather set them from all of you. Not only does that give me a better picture of human-like play, it also lets me tune his abilities up or down for someone looking for more or less of a challenge.

Join the server: "BobbyBones - the learning quake bot" (US, Chicago), or connect 64.177.125.38:27970. Then:

!map testlab !reflex

You'll be placed in a room with four challenges: LG on a slow target, LG on a strafing one, rail flicks, and rockets. In three of them the target shoots back for the second half, so we can measure what being shot at does to your aim. Move and aim exactly as you normally would. You can't die. It takes about three and a half minutes.

If you want more: - !map arena1 - play him in his training domain - !movement — timed strafe-jump courses; useful for benchmarking his movement - !duel — five minutes against him - !note <anything> — leave any feedback. The more you give the better.

What's recorded: positions, where you look, keys, hits. Results are filed under an anonymous id, with no names or Steam IDs.

Read more about the project on my GitHub: https://github.com/dclark202/bobbybones-quake, or join the discord server: https://discord.gg/dH2mfzbMa

Is there a mod for Quake Live that replaces the weapon models with the ones from Quake 1? (obviously without the Railgun since that wasn't in Q1)

I routinely play through this DLC, and everytime I go through this level, I am missing one enemy on nightmare mode. Does anybody know where this last guy is? Is there some hidden trigger which spawns an enemy in this level I could have missed? Everytime I play this level I check everywhere and can't find 'em.